Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Wait till it sits down. Okay. Good evening and welcome to the city of Antioch planning commission meeting of November 19th, 2025. It is 6:30 p.m. and I'm calling the meeting to order. Kitty, can you please call the role?

Yes. Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Spiker, present. Commissioner Simon, present. Commissioner Riley, present. Commissioner Perez is absent. Vice Chairperson Jones present. Chairperson Weber present. We have a quorum with Commissioner Perez absent at roll call. Thank you Kitty. If anyone everyone would please join me the commission for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the stands under God, indivisibley andice for all.

For persons desiring to address the commission on an item that is not on the agenda, please note that each speaker is limited to three minutes. The Brown Act limits the commission's ability to discuss or respond to items that are not on the agenda. Please fill out a speaker card and place it in the card tray. Are there any public comments on non-aggendaized items? None received.

Okay, I'm closing the public comment period. Next is the consent calendar. Consent calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion. By approval of the consent calendar, the staff recommendations will be adopted unless otherwise modified by the commission. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a member of the commission or a member of the public requests removal of the items from the consent calendar. We have the following items on the consent calendar this evening. Item 5-1, planning commission meeting minutes, September 17th, 2025. And item 5-2, planning commission meeting minutes, October 1st, 2025. Do we have any of the member any members of the public who would like to speak on this item? None received.

May I have a motion? A motion to approve the minutes. I second. We have a motion in a second on the question. Kitty, may I have a roll call vote? Yes. Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Spiker, I. Commissioner Suman, I. Commissioner Riley, I'm going to abstain. I was absent at one of the um at one of the meetings, but um and I don't want to have to worry about splitting this up and I think it'll pass regardless. So, I'll abstain from this. Uh chair or vice chair Jones I. Chairperson Weber I.

The motion passes 4 to one with Commissioner Riley abstaining to approve the consent calendar. Next item is public hearing item 6-1 Contra Costa Farms UP2025-009. This is at 3400 Wilbur Avenue. The applicant, Michaela Frey, is requesting a use permit to allow for a type 7 volatile manufacturing license at an existing building at the operating Contraosta Farms cannabis business at 3400 Wilbur Avenue, APN051-051-021. May I have a staff presentation, please?

Yes. Uh, good evening, commissioners. Uh, yes, this is a use permit for the Contraosta Farms volatile manufacturing. Um, so Contracasta Farms is located at 3,400 Wilbur Avenue. Um, it's the highlighted parcel here. Um, just off Highway 160. Uh, Contraosta Farms is an existing cannabis business. Um there's a dispensary located towards the front of the parcel that you can see off Wilbur. And then the uh tonight we're discussing the manufacturing to occur in an existing building um towards the back. So it's an existing building that's um already part of the cannabis business. So the request is a use permit to allow this volatile manufacturing. with a type seven license and um cannabis the California cannabis control has different license types. Um so type seven is for manufacturing cannabis products using a volatile solvent like butane or propane and it's volatile in the sense that produces a flammable gas or vapor. Um the other type would be type six which is nonvolatile. So that's using other things that aren't flammable in the same way. I'll also say that as part of the approvals that Contraosta Farms have, they have nonvolatile manufacturing approved. Um, so for some background, I think this may be our first cannabis item in a while um at the commission. The city of Antioch first adopted an ordinance allowing cannabis businesses in 2018. Since then, we've had some changes to the ordinance um including adding additional overlay areas um like in the Summersville area and downtown um for dispensaries and then some minor changes about separation requirements and just some kind kind of cleanups. Um our cannabis ordinance requires use

permits for cannabis businesses be approved by the city council. Um, you know, other use permits you see are, um, just approved at the planning commission level, but all cannabis is approved at the city council level. Um, so this project site is within the cannabis overlay district 1. Um, that is a district, the only district that allows type seven licenses, but they have to be a non multi-tenant building. So, this is like its own standalone building. So, it could be permitted Um so city council approved the contraata farms cannabis business in 2019. They allow cultivation nonvolatile manufacturing distribution distribution in a retail dispensary. The ultimate buildout of the project is two phases including new construction um for cultivation in the second phase. Since this is proposed to occupy an existing building, it's all still considered within the first phase when you read the conditions. So staff recommends that the planning commission recommend that the city council approve this use permit the you'll see within the conditions of approval in the resolution that it requires compliance with the original conditions of approval and those are very detailed regarding security odor ultimate buildout of the site. So this is really just trying to allow this type of manufacturing at an existing facility. So, the applicants here and I also have um uh um Captain Bitner from the police department if you have questions as well.

Does the applicant have an a presentation as well? [clears throat] And Kitty, can we put 10 minutes on me, please? If it's not,

can you hear me? Okay. My name is Chuck Wesley. I'm one of the managing members of Contraosta Farms, known as Cocoa Farms. My son Andy is here with me this evening. It feels a little bit like a homecoming because it was almost six years ago that we appeared requesting the permit for what we now have as Cocoa Farms. And um you'll see that it was approved. We opened on Christmas Eve 2019 [snorts] and shortly thereafter we became basically the number one dispensary in the state. We were doing 150,000 a day in collections. uh it's not the case anymore for a variety of reasons, but you can see the benefits we provided to the community through taxes and through donations to these um [snorts] local communities, local uh you know charitable uh organizations. So altogether it's like 5.2 million that this company has contributed over the period of six years. And um um since then uh we've added five additional dispensaries. We've added more cultivation. We've added manufacturing. We currently do volatile manufacturing in Woodland, California. So we know what we're doing. And all we're talking about is doing is taking a part of that and extending it into this facility here. So we're not doing this for the first time, which is important. and my son Andy will answer any questions about the process itself. Um, but basically I'm here to say we've done everything everything we promised to do. We've been good neighbors. Um, um, we've contributed all these benefits and um, we're hoping for your approval and thank you for being here this evening and thank you for what you do for the city.

For anyone who'd like to speak on this, I will now open the public comment period. City staff, please proceed with identifying the speakers who will have three minutes to address the commission. Do we have any public comments? I've received no other additional public comments. Okay, public comments is now closed and the item is back before the commission for discussion. I guess I'll go first. Um, I only had two questions. One in regards to employee safety because it's a volatile item. Uh, PP equipment requirements for that. So if you can just go over that for the employee safety because obviously there is chemicals involved in

so the employee the process to get the volatile approved by the state is multi-step and the machines that we have to get certified by the state and the CDPH and all the different uh bureaucratic groups in between here and actually functioning is is exorbitant. Um so it's not you know we get approval from the council and we're good to go. There's so many more steps, right? The machines have to be they're they're almost all customized and then they have to be certified by a third party before we can even turn them on. So there's so many steps and then the machine itself sits inside what's called a C1D1. It's a contained enclosed environment inside the building. So it's like a container, but it's not. It's it's a controlled environment. So it controls anything that has to do with um electrostat you know electro like static that could trigger something. It has automatic ventilations, automatic alarms. So these machines are built purpose for volatile extraction to prevent any sort of emergency that no one's aware of. So any leakage at all. It's got built-in um uh sprinklers um cameras. Everything is all the outlets and everything is all prevent you know there's no way they can spark there's you know there all the emergencies you can imagine these boxes kind of contain and prevent from happening

so employees are not coming into direct contact with any of the chemicals and if they are they're they're not they are not they're closed loop systems most of the gas is recaptured right some of it's exhausted or vented out but the 99 you know vast majority of it's recaptured actually Okay. Right. So that you can just kind of keep using it over and over and over. Um because its functionality doesn't change.

Okay. Thank you. Um and then I guess the next question I have is maybe for the police department. It says an annual audit of the site security plan shall be submitted to the Antioch Police Department or maybe I don't know who would answer this question. Uh the audit shall be conducted by city staff or thirdparty company subject to the approval of the Antioch Police Department. I did not see what that audit consists of or what that looks like. So, I'm not sure what's what is audited. And it says who's auditing it, but it doesn't say what's being audited. Do we know what that is? You got that, Desmond? I can.

So, I believe Zoe introduced myself or introduced me, but I'll introduce myself. I'm uh Desmond. I'm a captain with the police department. So, I have many duties throughout the police department. My main duty is I'm in charge of our investigation uh services, but um I'm also tasked with uh helping out with the inspections of our cannabis businesses. Um and we've been doing that since probably 2019. I had contact with um Cocoa Farms and Mr. Wesley back before they opened. They did a a pre-application conference with the PD. Uh I've been out to the site on um three different locations over the years. Um my counterpart who's since retired has been out there several times just is for various inspections. Um so our our main focus is on the retail. Retail is where you're probably going to have um problems associated with burglary, robbery, stuff like that. So they have a very detailed security plan when it comes to the the retail side. Um I was out there several believe probably a month ago with with planning. um they're have been in compliance with their security plan with the exception of a few minor corrections we noticed which I spoke to the applicant uh this evening and their process of of uh fixing those things. But we do monitor the calls for service on all our cannabis businesses on a um every six months looking for if there's excessive calls for service, if there's any type of robbery or burglar issues. But I can tell you um at this location there has been none of those. Um and when I was at the location um last month um I did do a walkthrough of the the building that they're proposing to have the um the volatile uh extraction uh location and um it's just a bare building now but the but they're up to up to speed on the um security issues there as far as having a uh a kind of secluded secured area for any product going in or out. uh it is a very safe location and as the applicant mentioned there's many steps um that need to be taken before they're even open and a lot of the things pertaining to uh the extraction device he mentioned um we have zero expertise in that but

we're expecting that the the state would sign off on that and we're mostly just concerned to when it comes to robberies and burglaries to prevent those and they're doing all they can to prevent those from occurring.

Okay. because I think there's a distinction between a security plan from the APD and then the the safety plan for the chemicals that you guys are using things like that like kind of like a OSHA I don't know if there's a department other than OSHA but I feel like those two things are separate and I want to make sure that in addition to safety um or the security plan that the employees in that area is safe and like there's not chemical spilling over or you know so I don't know if there's like a a state department for that or you guys are just maintaining it on your own. So maybe that's the the applicant's response that can help with that. Yeah, I'll let him speak to that. Yeah, security I get and I appreciate that that you guys are doing well on that and not having calls.

So Courtney, you're right 100%. The state has many many steps just to get approved. Yeah. Um they will require different plans just to get machines uh the footprint of the operation, what's going on where. Um, so there's there's multiple layers before we can get operational and that's audited on an annual basis or once they approve you, you guys are good to go. And no, the state audits annually if not more often. Okay, that's just the machines have to be reertified some frequency. Okay. Right. So there I think there's a life lifetime on the frequency of that. I think it's one or two years or three years somewhere in there. Okay. Um, we haven't gone through one of those on the other facility we have yet because we bought it and was already operational.

Okay. I appreciate that. Thank you. Those are all my questions. Anybody else? Um, I had a question more about the extraction process. Um, well, so first of all, the the building itself is currently being used for nonbiotel extraction. Is that right? Or no, right now it's not being used for anything. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. Um, because I heard you

we could we have the the entitlement. We could start doing nonvolatile things there tomorrow, but we're already doing those somewhere else and I don't want to disrupt those quite yet until this premise is ready to go. And so some of the other things that are just actually take up the vast majority of my operation are making gummies. Now there's CDPH. We'll have to come in and make sure we're good good and clean for that. Um uh filling vape carts, things like that. Um extracting uh you know doing bubble hash and you know uh you know pressing rosin and things like that. that are nonvolatile, making infused pre-rolls, making drinks. We make thousands and thousands of drinks at the other facility. So, there's a whole litany of products. A lot of the byproducts of volatile manufacturing go into those in some way, shape, or form. So, by having that functionality, we can make more products and be nimble in what we release and what we want to make because we have all the functionality in one place. So, right now, we have that existing. So this would enable us to potentially move that down here so we can do it all here as well closer to most of our operations.

I see. I see. Can I ask a question real quick? Uh what is the end result because uh you said the nonviol is like the gummies and the drinks and what's the end result of a viol product? So the volatile the what's the end end product of

um ultimately oils concentrated oils. Those oils are through the hydrocarbon extract process takes all the good stuff off the cannabis, leaves behind the biomass or the green waste. Now you have all your cannabonoids and all of your other elements of um of the cannabis plant except for the green waste. And so then those oils can then be turned into millions of different products. And so kind of the foundation for a lot of things, everything from vape pens to infused pre-rolls to edibles and gummies and and even topicals and balms. We make capsules, we make drinks. All those bi a lot of those byproducts come after this or a lot of those products come after this. So once we get into the oil, then we can do we're flexible. We can do lots of fun, you know, different applications or fun things with it.

Do do you guys happen to have any information showing how much of the butane still exists in the product once the extraction is complete? So all the products end up getting tested before they can ever hit a shelf. Who does the testing?

Third party labs test everything in the state. So before it goes any to any customer, it's gone through a certification process and that's very stringent. You know, that's a that's a major part of the overall program with the state cannabis is to make sure every product hitting the shelf is safe. The amount of and and if your product has too much residual solvent they call it, then yeah, it'll fail and so you won't be able to put that product out. So your process removes the vast majority of that so that it is safe. And so there's not we don't we wouldn't never put out a product that's unsafe, but there's a third party that makes sure that for every single skew that hits the shelf, every single time even if we make the same product over and over and over for the hundth time, they still test every single batch. I I think the pro problem that I have with this is that again this is man taking something that occurs naturally that I don't believe it's amoral, right? It's it's for the use of whoever's using it in a in a supposed or assumed and hopeful responsible fashion and then man gets a hold of something, we start making it different. It no longer becomes uh it's we're not talking about the backyard boogie that you know your grandpa used to have in his sock drawer, right? We're talking about something totally different. And I think when I think of legacy in the city of Antioch, I think about what do we want to be seen as and what are we leaving behind for our children and manufacturing marijuana is it's not necessarily the legacy that I want for my children. And especially with things like gummies that look like they're, you know, okay for children. My kid can't tell you the difference between a gummy worm and and something that has marijuana in it or or an edible THC product, right? There's no there's no that that the product doesn't tell, you know, the consumer what what

it is, right? Um so I think that's where I I have a difficult time in my judgment in making a decision on something that um is supposed to be recreational and then turns into, you know, we're always pushing the line of what that looks like, right? So I think that's where I stand on this particular item. I think there's, you know, there's there's opinions of all all these different things. Regardless of your opinion on this, the products are everywhere out there being made somewhere. There's no way you're going to stop that. And whether or not we're making it or somebody else making it, all the shelves are covered with these products, right? They're medical products. There are other recreational products. There's versions of it that enable people to uh get their their medical aspect of cannabis without having to eat a bag of candy. they just want to have, you know, a more concentrated version. There's a million different ways the plant can be used that some people can't eat a bag of candy because they're diabetic or they're, you know, so they they need to find another form, but they also don't want to sit there and smoke a lot of different, you know, traditional flour, right? They need a concentrated form or they need to take a capsule. Well, you can't put a bud in a capsule. So, there's no way around making the oil for it. So, that that kind of generation of products is is wildly available out there. And it's not just us. Every single dispensary here in town has them. Every single dispensary in California and the nation has these products. So that you know and you know and what's what's great about us doing it is at least you know it's all clean. It's all certified. It's all through track and trace system right. The alternative is the black market which is where a lot of these products originated from that people will source out if we're not providing them.

Yeah. No worries. Um, question about the extraction process. Um, you're So, I know you're using a bunch of solvents and, uh, according to the documents here, up to 95% is recaptured so you're able to recycle it and stuff. What happens to that leftover like 5% is that does it have to be vented in a certain way? Yeah, it's it's vented. It's captured and vented off. Okay. Okay. Um, how often does that vent off process happen? I I don't know the finer details of that. I am not the actual tech that runs the facility, but when we get to that point down the road, that's somebody I would I would lean on for more much more detailed information.

Okay. And like um like is there any any recording or is there any like regulation that has to capture this venting process? Because I feel like if you're venting these I mean these are greenhouse gases in a way too. So like it's kind of a concern of just the machines capture again 95 plus% of the gases so you can reuse them. They're meant they're meant so that you don't have to keep buying butane over and over and over again, right? And it's more contained and there's more control so you don't have to worry about you know other emergencies happening. So that that's like a core function of these things, right? Otherwise it wouldn't really be sustainable. Right.

Right. So that's a big part of it. And then you know the remaining of it a tiny a tiny percentage is in the product and then when you when you uh purge the product that gets separated there. Um I will say um I mean it is uh probably uh an upgrade from the black market. I've heard stories of it's definitely upgrade. Yeah. Uh stories of the butane processing in the black market is literally just going down to your gas station and getting a can of something and squirting it in a glass 100%. And it's just kind of kind of a disgusting and uh horribly polluting process. So it's good to know that there's some uh industry that is taking place here.

The and again all the other byproducts, not all of them, but a lot of the other products on the shelf start with this process at some point. Right. Right. So it's also a way for cultivators to monetize other parts of their plant that might not be great for the traditional smoking aspect, right? Right? So you can you can find a way to just justify more your cultivation. So there's a lot of other upstream and downstream impacts from from doing this, right?

Like I said, we we've been doing this for a while now at another place. We love doing it. It's it's been great. We have no, you know, we keep adding products and so at some point we're like, hey, we need to have a backup in case this doesn't work out. And the process for us to get open on this facility is a very long process. Even if council says yes, we're probably 9 to 12 months out from opening our doors there, right? That's how much rigorous uh reviews go into it.

Um, and my other question is, do you guys plan on um manufacturing only for like your own your own uh brand or your own label or is there like a contracting thing in this business where you might like uh extract a product for another y place? We do some contracting. We do some white labeling now. We do some bulk bulk selling of stuff. If people need a you know a liter of this oil and we have extras, we'll sell them and or maybe trade it and get something else in return. Uh it's an it's a big ecosystem, you know, it's a big part of the ecosystem in California. Okay.

And you know um this operation is part of a larger our larger group which gives it much more longevity. There is a lot of volatile labs that aren't making it right now because of the nature of the industry. Uh but we because we sell and make so much for ourselves and sell so much ourselves, it makes it more um more likely to succeed than a standalone operation out there. Okay. Interesting. All right. Uh thank you. I have another question. Go ahead, Gordon.

Thank you for bringing it up. Um you mentioned that you're I guess I you can call it wholesaling to other people. Um and I know that at the dispensary they have a higher sales tax because it's weed. Do you guys have the higher sales tax on the wholesale as well that the city captures or is it just regular sale tax because it's like pre It's the same product. Okay. Yeah. It's but it's a lot lower. It's a it's lower revenue because it's most I mean it's not a finished product. Yeah. Right. So it goes out and then lower cost point but it's the same higher tax point. Okay. Thank you.

All right. Um so first I'd like to say thank you for your presentation. Um I think based on what your presentation uh revealed about the process and the reasoning behind why you're seeking this approval and the materials that were provided uh by staff regarding you know the business and your um essentially your reputation you know over formed over all these years that it seems like a net plus to me. Uh it seems like the goal basically is to provide a u business who operates in the city of Antioch with a more efficient way of managing their business. And as such, I think it's uh it's it's a good proposal. Uh the only question I really had was the same basic question on safety that was posed by Vice Chair Jones. Um you've answered that. you know, this is essentially a self-contained area within a building. And I presume that should there be some sort of um emergency, let's call it an explosion, if you will, that the effects of that explosion would be contained either between the within the container or within the building itself or combination of the two. Um, so the only question I had just out of curiosity was, uh, you have approvals for the construction of additional buildings to further expand your business. Are there any plans to to do so? So we went really far down the path of trying to get power going and it would have cost us about 20 to 24 million if I remember correctly in generators to convert the gas pipe we have in the back to convert power because the power station across the street doesn't have enough power for our grows.

So in a weird way it was fortunate that we didn't have power because we would have built those buildings. might have be regretting it right now because right now um cultivation licenses are, you know, a dime a dozen out there

and indoor facilities are dime dozen. So we we could have done a 304 $50 million buildout and we regretting it right now. But because we didn't have immediate power and we had to come up with this other way of converting an old gas pipe that's still there that was still on and we could we could use it and turn that into into power. It slowed us down to the point where we saw what was going on in the market and we said, "Hold on, we don't need to build this right now." So, you know, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes, you know, let me add to that. Twice we applied through PG&D for the additional power and both times the process went dark. So, somebody would come out, they'd look at the site, they'd look at the plans and said, "We're going to do this and that." And then months later it would go dark and you had to start all over. So, after two tries, we said, "That's it." Meanwhile, the price of flour in the wholesale market went from like 2,200 to a,000 a pound and no longer was economically viable to build those facilities, frankly.

So, all right. So, the likelihood is they're not going to be constructed anytime in the near future. Probably not. If anything, we might come back and say, "Hey, we want to change it to green houses

and grow grow basically contained green houses." Um, and there's a vineyard right next door, so there's already a going on. And right next to me is a cement plant. And there's a power plant. So, there's no there would be no reason to say no to that. It's just not quite as beautiful as some big, you know, metal growhouses, right? It's going to be more traditional greenhouse. It actually look really cool if that whole facility was covered with those. That would be down the road, though. So, but we have the acreage. We have the uh ability to turn that stuff on fairly quickly um if we see the need, right? if the you know if the federal government does the right thing and schedule threes us and then we can it could justify something like that very quickly. All right. Thank you very much.

Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. I just have one simple question. Sure. How much you think it'll add uh to your business model dollar-wise hence increase the tax base for city?

So it won't necessarily add to our business model. I am already doing this 100% in another facility in Woodland. It will add to Antioch jobs, right? We probably have what 25 30 employees there now in Woodland. Again, making everything from gummies to cartridges to infused pre-rolls to working on these sort of things. And um so it'll add jobs and it'll add obviously tax revenue um to the city, our our entity. We we already have a fully functional version of this, right? And it's one of the most successful, one of the best ones, right? And back to your earlier question like um who else do you white label for and do you do this for other people in contract? We do some of the top brands in the state that are considered extremely um bougie or whatever you want to call it, use us to extract their flour for them.

So you don't anticipate any increase in the sales or the volume? We already we already do. It's for us it's just making it easier, putting it more local to us versus an hour and a half, hour 45 minutes away from our central hubs. It's more about convenience. It's more about getting onto a property we already own. Right now, I'm paying somebody else. I don't need to be doing that if I can put it on my own property I own. So, those sort of things are the benefits we're looking at. Again, we already do all this stuff. This isn't this is just to make our business more efficient. quantifying that is, you know, you could do, but the city is a net positive.

If you're selling in Woodland right now wholesale, I'm assuming that's where you're selling it. They're getting Woodland is getting the tax for that. But if you're going to start selling it here, then we would get the tax for that. If we start producing it here, then Antioch would

Okay, that's what I think that most of what's produced at Woodland comes its intercomps. It comes to our our stores. It goes to conquer for passage packaging and goes to our stores. And right now we're in a perfect balance of cultivation, production, retail stores. We do very little wholesale. Uh [snorts] we do this this white label extraction and we do some wholesale out of our new facility in Santa Rosa. Um but but we're growing and Woodland is doing all it can do. And so we're anticipating that we're going to have to have more than just Woodland. So, the plan is to move some things from Woodland that that that make sense to be done here and then now is our base for expansion beyond Woodland because we have seven stores now. There's more stores planned. [snorts] Um, and we have to keep the whole thing in perfect balance. We don't want too much that we have to then go to the wholesale market and accept whatever they pay. And we [snorts] want enough to keep our shelves stock. 75% of what it's sold out of out of our dispensaries is our own product. And by the way, to an earlier question, we have never had a recall of any of our products. The DCC regularly issues notices that these products must have must be recalled. And some of the biggest brands in the state are frequently recalled. And why the DCC hasn't stopped that, I don't know. None of our products have ever been recalled. So the products we put on our shelf are safe and it's part of our it's part of our message to the consumers that what you purchase from us are products that are are safe. They're from our own system. They're internal and from vendors who have never been recalled.

Thank you. Um I think because um of the 5.2 2 million in contributions to the city. Um, and the detailed security plan, the fact that there's been no calls to service to Cocoa Farms, the the safety plans in place and the state regulations in place. Um, I think um that this is a great opportunity for the city of Antioch and for you guys to expand your business. So, I'll be voting yes on this this motion. Thank you. Any other questions? What have you guys contributed uh between 2022 and 2025? I see only numbers from 2022

roll back up it had by year uh right there

the I'll speak to these you'll see a drop off first of all in 2020 and 2021 the streets were paved in gold for cannabis and and then and a lot of people made very bad decisions assuming the streets would continue to be paved in gold which of course they weren't. Um, so cannabis sales statewide have dropped significantly. Uh, but also since then other stores have opened in in Antioch, you know, so our sales are gone down and their souls, you know, so you're getting benefits from them. Uh, so that's why the contributions from us and 24 dropped and from 25 will drop also. [snorts] Um, 25 is not done yet. We'll probably

Well, that's just through October, but uh, yeah. So you [snorts] guys added more shops slicing the apple up more and more, they get thinner. I'd also just mention or clarify that all cannabis businesses in the city have an operating agreement. So besides just the base sales tax, there's other um percentages and then community benefits for the city. So, does out of curiosity for the um sales tax receipts, does that go to a specific fund or does that go to the general fund? That I'm not aware. I'm not sure how that part works. Okay.

Um yes. Yeah. And the excise tax receipts. I don't I think the city is supposed to get a piece back from the state when they collect the excise, which is I wonder if that I think part of that goes to measure W. that you somehow you guys get a cycle back of tax dollars we pay. Got it. But that's that's not up here. This is just what we pay direct.

Okay. Thank you. Um, you know, I I I hear what Commissioner Weber is saying about how the legacy of Antioch I, you know, I wish there were better things than just the cannabis industry. And, you know, do we want our children's uh jobs to be going here and and you know, but at the same time, I you know, I gota this is people's free will and as you mentioned, this is what a lot of people this is happening everywhere in the city, everywhere in the state, everywhere in the nation. Um, and you know, uh, as much as I'd say like the employment opportunities in Antioch, uh, I I think it'd be I I would like to see, uh, Antioch residents work for this MPA store more so than working for Amazon right up the street, you know, you know, doing things that for that multi-gajillion dollar company. So, um, you know, I think this is also a good opportunity. Um, so yeah, I think I think that's, uh, something to be said. Uh, but with that, um, I'd like to make a motion. Um, make a motion to approve item 6-1, Contraosta Farms, UP 2025-00009, 3400 Wilbur Avenue, APN 051 05- 051-021. Um, as written.

I second the motion. Can I have a roll call vote, Kitty? Yes. Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Spiker. Hi. Commissioner Simon. Hi. Commissioner Riley. I. Vice Chairperson Jones. I. Chairperson Weber. No. The motion passes for one with chairperson Weber voting against to uh recommend the city council approve the use permit for the type 7 volatile manufacturing license at the existing Contraosta Farms business at 3400 Wilbur Avenue, APN051. 051-21 up 2025-00009.

Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. We're moving on to written oral communications. Are there any written or oral communications? Have a good night. Thank you. Good night, you guys.

Um I don't believe so. I'll just say that at the next meeting on December 3rd [clears throat] and we'll be looking into the trans plan um appointment. I think it's that time of year already. Um so just be thinking about that, but we'll have the staff report with like the meeting times and everything. Do do you think we'll have one meeting next month or two? I'm thinking one. I'm hoping just December 3rd, but um there may be an item on December 17th. Um so once as soon as I know, I'll let you all will plan for that, but um just now, please keep your calendar open. All right.

Speaking of transplant, are there any committee reports? The transplanting committee did not meet. Okay. Next, uh is there any other reports? No other committees, no other reports. Um, the next planning commission meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025. Motion to adjurnn. Anybody? I'll make a motion to adjourn the meeting. Second. Roll. Kitty. Roll call vote, please. Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Spiker. I. Commissioner Simon. I. Commissioner Riley. I. Vice Chairperson Jones. Hi. Chairperson Weber. Hi.

The motion passes unanimously to adjourn at 711 p.m. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Happy Thanksgiving.

It's in Martinez. Maybe I will pull up with my middle baby. I always like if she's like you know what I'm saying? Like I got to use a bathroom. Have a good night. Nice to meet you.